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Re: [Xen-devel] Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Fedora Xen PPC integration report 2/20
From: Jerone Young <jyoung5@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:03:40 -0600
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Sorry about this guys sent this to the wrong list by accident. But
please do enjoy ;-).

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:58 -0600, Jerone Young wrote:
> I'll go through some of what is going on. Our break down of packages can
> be found here:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPPC/Fedora?highlight=%28Fedora%29
> 
> Fedora Community (PPC)
> =====================
> IRC -- best place
> ~~~
> server: irc.feenode.net (freenode)
> channel: #fedora-ppc
> 
> Mailing List
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc
> This list is not very active
> 
> 
> Fedora Core 7
> =============
> Currently PPC rawhide builds of Fedora core 7 have a lot of know issues
> (as I found out in IRC). Apparently there is a lot of work happening to
> the builds at the moment so FC7test3 MAY be a reliable build for PPC.
> Due to these problems I have been unable to create an environment to get
> Xen up and going under FC7 to see what may/may not be wrong with
> userspace tools. I am prodding people now!
> 
> One sticking point that noone seems to be able to answer yet. Is does
> Fedora work on IBM System P systems. It looks to work for System I, but 
> 
> Feature freeze
> --------------
> Has been moved back to March 19
> 
> Release date
> ------------
> The release date has been moved to May 24th. They are going to attempt
> to rework the build system so the Fedora Core & Fedora Extras are
> combined to form Voltron!
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Schedule
> 
> kernel
> -------
> So options CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM (Jimi you called it
> CONFIG_PPC_GENERIC) is enabled. Which will allow for kernel integration.
> 
> The Fedora PPC kernel maintainer is David Woodhouse
> <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> He is more then happy to take in need changes if we can get them in and
> they don't break anything.
> 
> 
> Installer (anaconda)
> --------------------
> The installer is unable to create  "Prep" partitions which are used by
> IBM PPC machines to load up the boot loader (as opposed to the Master
> Boot Record everyone else uses). I've filed a bug on this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229231
> 
> 
> IBM PPC Systems
> ---------------
> While it's supposed to work. I have yet to see this work with Global
> Firmware.  
> 
> 
> Fedora 7 Extras
> ===============
> grub2
> ------
> In this space I started the prep work by packaging up grub2 for
> fedora-extras with fixes as suggested by Jermy Katz. The problem is no
> one has gotten to it. I have emailed the list today probing to see if
> someone would hurry up and review it and throw it in. The bugzilla for
> the review can be found here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228255
> 
> 
> More info as it comes but this is where things stand as of today. 
> 
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